Should there be another ODST game?

Recruit - Bronze

I loved being able to experience how it was being an ODST, It was a nice change of pace from being a super soilder! Personally, I believe that with the new game engine that 343 has, the possibilities are endless. What do you guys think? Do you think there should be another halo game where we fight as an ordinary soilder? I look forward to getting your thoughts on this.

Marine - Onyx

It'd be perfectly fine with me. I've also suggested that I'd like to see an open-world RPG Halo game licenced out to another developer who'd do it justice, where we play as an average midshipman, who survives a crash on a malfunctioning shieldworld, and has to survive various challenges, such as the crews of other crashed ships, ancient Forerunner ruins, and more. With no Spartans or other previously named characters in such a game, our decisions in this game are free to affect the entire world without having any impact on any other story, so long as the game concludes with off-world communications still blocked and the ships unable to take off. It would also be the perfect opportunity to have a plethora of different armor options with different effects in addition to their standard armor bonus.

Recruit - Onyx

I would love another ODST game but remember we can't have the original squad together if you don't want to be with Spartans. If they made a new ODST squad to follow in the post - war era that would be cool.

Marine - Bronze

YES, I think another ODST would work well for the next game in the franchise (after Halo:Infinite of course). The only problems are:

making new characters that the fans can get to know and like in 1 game (like Bungie managed with the original ODST squad)

A setting that makes sense for the type of game ODST seems to be (exploration / free-roam with missions sprinkled in). They could try Harvest just after the 1st contact between the covenant and UNSC ambassador team. I believe the old books talk about the evacuation efforts during the 1st battle for Harvest and that there were a few large cities that saw heavy fighting before being lost. Otherwise they'd have to try something new.....

Marine - Iron

Marine - Silver

Another ODST would be great but I’m disappointed that they killed off the Rookie in a comic or novel. Such a shame.

Gameplay wise i’d love to see more ‘feet first into hell’ and be able to decide where to drop, similar to Medal of Honour Airborne but I imagine this may prove difficult to structure level and plot wise.

Recruit - Onyx

I loved being able to experience how it was being an ODST, It was a nice change of pace from being a super soilder! Personally, I believe that with the new game engine that 343 has, the possibilities are endless. What do you guys think? Do you think there should be another halo game where we fight as an ordinary soilder? I look forward to getting your thoughts on this.

I think that would be an interesting idea.

I know that one idea mentioned in various videos and other forums is a Flood-themed horror game where the player is an ODST or a Marine who has to fight their way through a Flood-infested area to survive.

What if 343 decided to give us a short game where we get to play as Sergeant Johnson through various levels of the original Halo, and we get to see how he made it off the ring? I know that his survival was explained in Halo: First Strike, but it was never explained how he got onto that pelican, and I also know that his escape through the Flood containment facility was explained in the Halo Graphic Novel story Breaking Quarantine, but wouldn't it be cool to actually play through that as Sergeant Avery Junior Johnson!? Wouldn't that be awesome!? I mean, he is technically an ODST and a Spartan I, but he's still less advanced than Spartan II's and III's like the Master Chief and Noble Team.

Or maybe a game where we play as Buck during the invasion of Reach, with a cameo by the Falcon piloted by Noble Six appearing at some point?

Spartan - Iron

I'd like to think that we'll see another ODST game sometime in the future. One could argue we got another ODST game with Halo Fireteam Raven but that's only a 45 minute experience from start to finish. I really enjoyed ODST and it brought a new level of challenges in that you weren't playing as a super solider Spartan, you were an ODST so it was harder to take down Covenant

Marine - Iron

ODST was amazing and still one of my favorite games to play (even after like 6 play throughs). I don’t think we will see another one but I hope we do with even more focus on the squad -command options things like that would be great..

Recruit - Gold

Another ODST would be great but I’m disappointed that they killed off the Rookie in a comic or novel. Such a shame.

That happened in the novel 'Halo: New Blood' but I don't know if it's really canon for the game. Easy enough to set a game into between ODST and the events of the book or just ignore it completely.

Yeah I thought so. Sadly, unless 343 decide to make a game about it, the books are considered canon.

It's a similar situation with 'Halo: Reach' and 'Halo: The Fall of Reach'. Bungie said game canon>novel canon so I assume the same would be for 343 though of course, this may not be the case.

Nonetheless, I've not personally read 'Halo: New Blood' so I can't comment on whether it's a good novel, though I can say I'm not happy about the Rookie being killed off screen

Yeah, it’s a ahem what happend to rookie, I’d prefer it if they’d just never talk or mention him again. He was mysterious to began with and they should have just made him vanished into thin air after and leave his story blank after the fact.

Recruit - Gold

I would drool hard over another ODST (or marine) game set in the time of the small outbreak of the Flood in Voi, after Truth left for the Ark. Also in the same game, go further ahead in the timeline, playing maybe also as a spartan 4 or preferebbly again an elite in cooperation with odst and spartans to contain and de-infest flood portions of the other rings.

Preferabbly the game should be set around flood horror. More effective as a marine/ scientist/ ODST since you are MUCH more vurnerable for infection by infection forms/ pods and infection forms ( need some filter/ gas mask for such parts of the game)

Please 343! You could also outsource it to another developer who UNDERSTANDS the Halo lore/ canon, gameplay and especially the flood.

Recruit - Bronze

Recruit - Onyx

How about an ODST game during the Insurrection? The games thus far have been focused on fighting covies and prometheans. Focusing on some pre-Covenant era lore outside of books could be an interesting avenue